For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without ploughing or harvesting.
Exodus 34:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘You are to labour six days but you must rest on the seventh day; you must even rest during ploughing and harvesting times. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest [on the Sabbath]. American Standard Version (1901) Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. Common English Bible You should do your work for six days, but on the seventh day you should rest. Even during plowing or harvesttime you should rest. Catholic Public Domain Version For six days you shall work. On the seventh day you shall cease to cultivate and to harvest. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Six days shalt thou work: the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough, and to reap. |
For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without ploughing or harvesting.
At that time I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath. They were also bringing in stores of grain and loading them on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.
‘Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the resident foreigner may be refreshed.
Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord. Anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.
For six days work is to be done, but on the seventh day you are to have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord. Anyone who does work on it must be executed.
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel and fork.
‘Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there is to be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you live.
But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, ‘There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.’
Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.
The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.
He can appoint them for his use as commanders of thousands or commanders of fifties, to plough his ground and reap his harvest, or to make his weapons of war and the equipment for his chariots.